Scott Horton of Harpers Magazine talks about his recent article detailing a potential CIA cover-up of three deaths at Guantanamo in 2006: huff.to/1p9x8kd The Center for Constitutional Rights represents the families of Yasser Al-Zahrani of Saudi Arabia and Salah Al-Salami of Yemen, two of the men who died that day. At the time of their deaths, Al-Zahrani and Al-Salami had been detained for more than four years without charge. Al-Zahrani was 17 years old when he taken into custody, and was apparently slated for repatriation at the time of his death. Our lawsuit was met with dismissal by the district and circuit courts in D.C., on the grounds that even if federal officials had been involved in the homicides, the courts were powerless to grant a remedy. We are currently asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to investigate the deaths.
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 16:07:57 +0000
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